Binding blank-books



(No Model) 4 T. BECKBTT.

BINDING BLANK BOOKS- Patented'Feb. 14.1888.

INVBNTOR I Al Ton-mzmu A UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

THOMAS BEGKETT, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

BINDING BLANK- BOOKS.

SPECIFICATION forming im of Letters Patent No. 377,880, dated February 14, 1888.

Application filed July 16, 1886. Serial No. 208,180. (No model.)

blank-book to which my improvement has been applied, and showing the parchment bands and the ordinary stitching. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of' the same, taken through the center of one of the leaf-sections. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the same opened at the center of aleaf-section and showing my improvement, the ordinary stitching being omitted.

i The Object Ofthis invention is to p ovide fun bound blank-books bound in such a manner and'stitchesO in the ordinary manner. The leaves of each leaf -section A are connected with each ,other along'the fold by a row of stitches, D, before the said sections A are con-' nected with each otherinto a book by the parchment bands B and the stitches O.

When the books are bound in the ordinary manner and the stitches O of one or more of the leaf-sections Ashould be broken or otherwise give way, all the leaves of the said section will be loosened and will get out of place or come out, except the last leaf of the said section,which will be held in place by the glue and strapping.-

With my improvement, should the ordinary stitches 0 give way in any of the sections, all the leaves of the said section will be held-in place by the stitches D so long as the outer leaf of the said section is held by the glue and strapping.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I The herein-described blank-book-, consisting of a series of leaf-sections, A, each having its leaves-connected together along the fold bya row of stitches, D, and the several sections connected together by the parchment bands B and the stitches O, as specified. 

